Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field… — Dennis Chavez Copy Share Image
No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age… — George Peele Copy Share Image
Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled… — John Keats Copy Share Image
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image